Rowing-gear



(No Model.) P. D. SMITH.

. Rowing Gear. v

No. 240,194. Patented April 12,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED D. SMITH, OF NEW OARLISLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM H. HAY, OF WATERLOO, IOWA. I

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 240,194, dated April 12, 1881. Application filed September 3, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: a hole, 0, for the reception of the pin 10, that Be it known that I, FRED D. SMITH, of New projects downward from near the inner end of 45 Carlisle, in the county of St. Joseph and State. the partfof the oar, and serves as the pivot on of Indiana, haveinvented a new and Improved which said blade partf Works. Rowing-Gear, of which thefollowingis aspeci- The pin 1) being entered in the hole 0 of the fication. I block B, and the free end of the brace D being The object of this invention is to provide a engaged in one of the perforations of the plate 0 device by means of which a boatman may pull hot the oar-handle, as shown in the drawings, a boat in the direction in which he is facing. the operator, sitting on the thwart c and facing Figure 1 is a plan view showing the gear in in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, pulls on position on a boat. Fig. 2 is a front view of the handle 9 with the efi'ect of forcing the the same on line 00 a, Fig. 1. blade f of the car rearward, in the direction Similar letters of reference indicate correindicated by dotted lines, Fig. 1, thus forcing sponding parts. the boat forward in the direction in which he In the drawings, A represents a boat, and a (the operator) is facing.

I) c a side, gunwale, and thwart thereof. The oar-lock block B rocks easily to accom- Bis an oar-lock blockjournaled in the standmodate itself to the dip of the oar and mo- 60 ards d d-that are fastened on the gunwale b' tion of the boat, and the oar O can be readily parallel with said gunwale b, and sufiiciently folded out of the way against the side of the above it for a free rocking movement inward boat, and as readily be unshipped and taken and outward. in board as can an oar of ordinary construc- (J is an oar constructed in two parts, the tion. blade part f of which is pivoted or jointed to To sportsmen seeking water-fowl this device the handle 9, so that said blade part f can is of great advantage, permitting the sportsswing flatwise. .In this instance the inner end man to keep the game in view while pulling toof the partfhas securely fastened on its upper ward it. and lower sides cleats or lugs h k, that extend, I do not confine myself to an oar-lock block 70 parallel with each other, beyond the end of the constructed precisely as herein shown and depart f, and between these cleats or lugs h h scribed, as said block may be made entirely of the handle 9 is pivoted on a pin, I. Said hanmetal or of wood, and may be varied in shape. dle g is provided on its pivoted end with a Having thus described my invention, what strengthening band of metal, 2', and on its un- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 7 der side has a perforated laterally-extending Patent, is plate, It, attached for the engagement of an 1p rowing-gear, the pivoted handle 9, pro 5 end of the horizontal adjustable pivoting rod vided on its under side with a perforated lator brace D, said plate It being provided with erally-extending plate, K, and an oar, f, pivseveral holes for the purpose of changing the oted thereto, in combination with the oar-lock 8o fulcrum of the oar 0 when desired. The opblock B and the pivoted rod D, as and for the posite end of this rod or brace D is hooked purpose specified.

into the inward-projectin g end of a metal strap, FRED D. SMITH.

m, that is fastened about the rear end of the oar- Witnesses lock block B. On the opposite end of the block JASPER E. LEWIS, B a metal strap, a, is fastened, provided with GEO. H. ALWARD. 

